Rise and Fall of Epithelial Phenotype / Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit (PDF)

Preface.- EMT Concept and Examples from the Vertebrate Embryo.- Epithelium-Mesenchyme Transitions Are Crucial Morphogenetic.- Events Occurring during Early Development.- The Neural Crest: A Model Developmental EMT.- Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transformation in the Embryonic Heart.- Epithelial-Extracellular Matrix Cell-ECM Interactions in Hydra.- Regulation of the Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition in Sea Urchin Embryos.- Change of Epithelial Fate: Lessons from Gastrulation in Drosophila.- Cutaneous Wound Reepithelialization: A Partial and Reversible EMT.- Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transitions in Human Cancer.- Structural and Functional Regulation of Desmosomes.- Epithelial Cell Plasticity by Dynamic Transcriptional Regulation of E-Cadherin.- The Regulation of Catenins in Cancer.- Hepatocyte Growth Factor Regulates Transitions between Epithelial and Mesenchymal Cellular Phenotypes during Normal Development and in Disease.- The Role of Insulin-Like Growth Factors in the Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition.- TGFâ-Dependent Epithelial-Mesenchymal-Transition.- The Ras and Src Signaling Cascades Involved in Epithelial Cell Scattering.- Regulation of E-Cadherin-Mediated Cell-Cell Adhesion by Rho Family GTPases.- Wnt Signaling Networks and Embryonic Patterning.- Cadherin-Mediated Cell-Cell Adhesion and the Microtubule Network.- Matrix Metalloproteases and Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition: Implications for Carcinoma Metastasis.- Index.